The Night - Skies Of A Year. By Joseph H. Elgie. (chorley
and Pickersgill. 6s. net.)—This "Journal of a Stargazer" will furnish its readers with much useful information. It is in the form of a diary, made last year, but serving, of......
Golfing Curios And The Like. By Harry B. Wood. (sherratt
and Hughes, Manchester. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Wood tells us some- 'thing about the history of golf, and illustrates what he tells with pictures of articles connected with the game......
Nooks And Corners Of Old London. By Charles And Marie
Hemstreet. (T. Werner Laurie. 3s. 6d. net.)—The authors have taken much pains in collecting a number of facts connecting with various localities various men and women more or......
We Have Received Two Volumes Of The " Treasure-house "
Series (Wells Gardner, Dorton, and Co., 3s. 6d. per vol.) One of these is 'The British Museum of Natural History (South Kensington), by W. P. Pycraft. In nothing is the......
Some Books Of The Week.
• [Under this heading ws notice such Books of the week as have net isn► reserved for review in other forms.] A Short History of the Church of England. By the Rev. J. F. Kendall.......
The History Of The 91st Argyllshire Highlanders. By R. P.
Dunn- Pattison. (W. Blackwood and Sons. £2 2s. net.)—It is quite impossible to do justice to this book, a handsome quarto of more than four hundred pages, crowded with......
The January Issue Of The New English Dictionary, Edited By
Sir James A. H. Murray (Clarendon Press, 2s. 6d.), contains an instalment of Vol. IX., " Si—Simple," by W. A. Craigie, LL.D. It is interesting, to take the last word of the......
Verselets And Versions. By G. J. Cowley-brown, M.a....
and Son, Edinburgh.)—The best thing in this little book is, we think, the adaptation of an Arab legend which 'Lamar-tine relates in his "Voyage en Orient." It tells how Solomon......
Edinburgh, 1910. By W. H. T. Gairdner. (oliphant,...
Ferrier. 2s. 6d. net.)—The World Missionary Conference held at Edinburgh in the year just concluded is represented by a con- siderable literature. Various Commissions which had......
Celebrated Cambridge Men. By C. G. Griffinhoofe, M.a. (a. F.
Dixon, Cambridge. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Griffinhoofe begins with William Lyndewode of Lionville and Pembroke (1375-1446), and -ends with Sir Michael Foster of Trinity (1836-1907),......
The Journal Of Education. (william Rice. 7s. 6d.) — We...
our customary welcome to the annual volume of this excellent periodical,—the forty - second, we observe. It has won a very high place—it would not be too much to say the highest......
We Have Received The Fourth Half-yearly Volume Of Travel And
Exploration, Edited by Eustace Reynolds-Ball (Witherby and Co., Is. 6d.) This is "an Illustrated Monthly of Travel, Exploration, Adventure, and Sport." We wish the undertaking......
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